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Little Vampire Goes to School by Joann Sfar
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Little Vampire Goes to School

by Joann Sfar

Series: Little Vampire

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I love it!!! more pink flying dogs

This book is marketed as a big hardcover children's book that still manages to attract notice from adults. The large colorful format and easy to read dialogue engaged the seven year old in me, while the rest of me loved such details as the rickety Victorian style home, open cell drawings, discussions such as 'I want to see kids my own age'...'And what's that supposed to mean, anyway - 'his own age'? A vampire doesn't have an 'age'. As soon as he becomes a vampire, he stopped growing old, so what's all this nonsense?', and an alligator monster, a monster with three eyes each on its own stalk and each with its own hat that matches its pink three piece suit, a pirate skeleton with little grey ghosts living in his huge tri-corner hat, stars that are rectangular like glowing window panes up in the night sky and a moon that always looks like a floating yellow croissant, a messy mud bath in the living room, a jealous pink flying dog named Phantomat, a cold called the mumbles... ( )
  taylorh | Apr 11, 2008 |
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0689857179, Hardcover)

Little Vampire has decided that despite his ability to fly, freedom to turn himself into a rat, a wolf, or a bat--even his unquestioned right to "bite little girls till they bleed, without ever getting into trouble"--that what he really wants to do is go to school. The kind with teachers, other kids, and math homework. Unfortunately for Little Vampire, teachers and other kids don’t hang out at school in the dead of night, but math homework abounds, and when Little Vampire starts completing a little boy’s assignments for him, the two get to be friends.

Little Vampire Goes to School sounds like it should be a Halloween book for 5-year-olds, but with its comic-book illustrations, occasional toilet humor, and rambling story that touches on everything from the legend of the Flying Dutchman to whether an orphaned child ought to believe in God, it’s probably more appropriate for 8- to 10-year-olds. Joann Sfar’s illustrations are an interesting mix of creepy and cartoony comic-book styles, and the motley assortment of monsters who live in Little Vampire’s castle provide plenty of background chatter and jokes. This book is just right for a kid who likes monsters but doesn’t actually want to be scared. (Ages 6 to 10) --Jennifer Lindsay

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400)

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